"Yes!"

The shadow guard bowed respectfully and turned to leave.

After he left.

Fang Xiu and Li Yinyue sat opposite each other, speechless.

I don't know how long it took.

One by one, delicious delicacies were delivered to the temple.

At the same time, two pairs of dishes and chopsticks were placed in front of the two of them.

"Your Highness, the dishes are ready."

The shadow guard saluted respectfully.

"Hmm."

Fang Xiu responded and waved his hand.

The Shadow Guard bowed and retreated.

Li Yinyue glanced at the chopsticks and dishes in front of her, but did not pick up the chopsticks.

Seeing this, Fang Xiu asked, "The dish is wrong?" ”

Li Yingyue didn't speak, and shook her head gently.

She just thought that a few years ago, when she was young, she also had a meal in Qianqing Palace.

It's the same dish.

Her father sat in her current position, the queen mother sat in Fang Xiu's position, and she and her brother snuggled up to her father's side.

The picture in my memory is still very clear, but in an instant, it has become an unattainable past.

Li Yingyue sighed in her heart, picked up chopsticks, picked up a piece of glutinous rice lotus, put it in her mouth, and chewed it gently.

Meanwhile.

A vicissitudes of sound sounded outside the door.

"Minister Xie Qian, please see His Royal Highness the Regent."

"It's pretty fast."

Fang Xiu raised his eyebrows, also picked up his chopsticks, ate a few bites of food, and said slowly: "Come in." ”

"Your Highness!"

The sound of vicissitudes sounded again.

The door was slowly pushed open.

Xie Qian walked in front of Fang Xiu and Li Yingyue, saluted respectfully, and said, "Minister Xie Qian, see Your Majesty, see His Royal Highness the Regent." ”

Li Yingyue raised her eyes and glanced at him, but without speaking, she withdrew her gaze and ate the dishes by herself, as if everything in front of her had nothing to do with her.

Although he had known for a long time that His Majesty was just a puppet of the regent, Xie Qian, who had noticed this scene, still sighed in his heart.

"Do you know what Lone called you to do?"

Fang Xiu put down the chopsticks in his hand, turned his head to look at him, and asked coldly.

Xie Qian hesitated for a moment and replied, "If you go back to Your Highness, the minister probably knows." ”

Fang Xiu said: "Let's talk about it." ”

Xie Qian hesitated: "Gao Yu is a close friend of the minister, he wrote this article, openly and secretly attacking His Majesty, His Royal Highness the Regent and the alliance between the two countries, it is difficult for the minister to clear up the relationship."

Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Fang Xiu.

"On the surface, this article is all about scolding you, the first assistant university scholar of the cabinet, how can it be said that it has nothing to do with you?"

Xie Qiandao: "In the minister's opinion, Gao Yu scolded the minister, he was protecting the minister, and he didn't want the minister to be implicated by him." ”

When Fang Xiu heard this, he was silent for a few seconds and said, "Go on." ”

"Yes, Your Highness."

Xie Qian responded and continued: "Gao Yu is not a reckless man, let alone an old fool, he sent this article to Jiang Yue Pavilion, so he didn't plan to let this article come out, because the senior officials above the fourth rank in the court probably know that Jiang Yue Pavilion is His Highness's property, and Jiang Yue tabloid is the mouthpiece of His Highness.

Since this is the case, there is only one possibility for him to send this article, which is to deliberately let His Highness see it, so as to clear up the connection between the minister and him.

In addition, the article could not be published, and he must have made other plans, attacking the imperial court and attacking His Highness. ”

When Fang Xiu heard this, he raised his eyebrows and said leisurely: "In that case, if Lone handed over this matter to Ling, what would you do?" ”

Xie Qian did not hesitate at all, and said firmly: "If you let the minister handle this matter, the top priority is to arrest Gao Yu, even if you don't do this, you must send Jinyi Guards to surround his mansion and prevent him from contacting anyone, so as to cut off the possibility of him making trouble!" ”

Fang Xiu didn't expect Xie Qian to be so decisive, and couldn't help but look at him twice.

Seeing Xie Qian's expression as usual, Fang Xiu spoke again: "It's a good way, but. . There is one thing, Lone is very puzzled, Lone and His Majesty returned to Beijing yesterday, why did Gao Yu choose to make trouble today? ”

The voice fell.

Fang Xiu's sharp eyes stared at Xie Qian.

Sharp eyes, as if they can see through people's hearts.

Even Xie Qian, who has gone through ups and downs, couldn't help but feel weak at a moment in the face of such a look.

But soon he stabilized his mind and said, "Yichen thinks there may be many reasons, maybe he only made a decision today, or maybe he didn't think about what to do before."

He said a few reasons in one breath, and they all sounded reasonable.

When Fang Xiu heard this, he said with a smile: "Elder Xie Ge is worthy of being Gao Shangshu's best friend, and he knows Gao Shangshu so well. ”

When Xie Qian heard this, he chuckled in his heart and opened his mouth, wanting to say something.

Before he could speak, he was interrupted by Fang Xiu.

"Okay, Lone believes this has nothing to do with you."

"As for what you just said, this article can't be published. Lone tells you that you are wrong, tomorrow Jiangyue tabloid will publish Gao Yu's article, and it will be printed as a front-page headline! ”

The voice fell.

Xie Qian was stunned.

He never thought that Fang Xiu would allow such an article that secretly attacked him to be published.

"What is the Lord Regent going to do?"

At this moment, Xie Qian's mind was thinking a lot.

Before he could make a judgment, he heard Fang Xiu continue:

"The most important thing for Gu to call you over today is for you to write an article to refute Gao Yu, which must be reasonable, convincing, and most importantly, let the vast majority of ordinary people agree from the bottom of their hearts."

When Fang Xiu said this, he picked up the teacup, took a sip, and continued: "You were the champion and the first in the past, you entered the Hanlin Academy as soon as you entered the imperial court, and now you are the first auxiliary scholar of the cabinet, it should not be difficult for you to write such an article. ”

When Xie Qian heard this, his face showed a look of trance.

Write an article to refute Gao Yu, and let ordinary people agree from the bottom of their hearts?

This.

"Your Royal Highness, the minister thinks that not many people will take Gao Yu's article to heart, and the vast majority of those who will really put this article in their hearts are my Da Zhou's readers, and what readers care about most is benevolence, in addition, there is loyalty."

Xie Qian looked embarrassed and said.

Implication.

In terms of "benevolence" and "loyalty", they are not reasonable, and it is difficult to refute Gao Yu.

When Fang Xiu heard this, his brows furrowed slightly, and he asked, "What is benevolence?" ”

Such a question, for the average person, may be answered in a few sentences.

For a cabinet scholar like Xie Qian, he may not be able to finish a day or a night.

Therefore, he simply replied: "Back to Your Highness, the saint has words, the benevolent, and the lover." ”

Fang Xiu said: "The sage said, the benevolent love others, the courteous respect others, the lovers love others, and people always love them; Those who respect others will always respect them. ”

Xie Qian was slightly stunned when he heard him suddenly mention the words of the sage, and said in his heart, I didn't expect that the regent would still remember the words of the sage.

Fang Xiu noticed Xie Qian's slightly surprised eyes, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

No matter what he said, he was also a jinshi and the first back then.

It's just a well-known sage who says it, this Xie Qian looks at him with this kind of eyes, is it because he treats him as a gentleman who doesn't learn and doesn't know how to do it?

"The sage also said, the king makes the ministers courteous, and the ministers are loyal; From the way does not obey the king, from the righteousness does not obey the father, and the great deeds of people are also; The people are the most important, the community is secondary, and the monarch is light. ”

Fang Xiu said the famous words of the three saints in one breath, followed by silence.

Xie Qian heard this, but he immediately understood.

The regent wants him to refute Gao Yu from the aspect that the emperor is mediocre and His Majesty and His Royal Highness the regent love the people.

No matter how fanciful Gao Yu is, whether the people are doing well or not, the people themselves know it.

After His Majesty ascended the throne, he exempted some areas from land taxes, increased the commercial taxes of wealthy merchants, exempted the commercial taxes of market vendors, and gave sweet potato seedlings to many people to teach them how to grow.

In addition, the prices of many commodities, such as cloth, sugar, liquor, and monosodium glutamate, have dropped a lot.

The life of the people is indeed better than before.

As long as these are written, they can strongly refute Gao Yu's attack.

Of course, these are only the common people who care.

The vast majority of scholars do not work in agriculture on weekdays, and they do not touch the fireworks in the world, so they naturally do not have much feeling about these changes.

All they saw was that the prime minister of the Qianguo became the regent of the Great Zhou, the ancestral etiquette was destroyed, the regent wantonly oppressed the imperial officials, the imperial court "groveled" to the Qianguo, and the first and auxiliary scholars of the cabinet bowed to the enemy.

Others, they can't see.

Thus.

Xie Qian hesitated for a few seconds, but still said, "Your Highness, the scholar."

As soon as he spoke, he was interrupted by Fang Xiu: "Why do you always mention those scholars?" ”

Of course, it's because the reader is important.

Xie Qian did not hesitate and said: "After all, the world still depends on scholars to govern. ”

Fang Xiu looked at him, nodded and said, "This sentence is true, but in Lone's opinion, there are six words that need to be added before reading a book, and there are real talents to learn. After all, the world must be governed by reading books with real talents! ”

When Xie Qian heard this, he was slightly stunned, and quickly understood what Fang Xiu meant.

This is to say that the vast majority of the scholars in Da Zhou have no real talents?

As a scholar of the first assistant university in the cabinet, Xie Qian naturally disagrees with this sentence.

He hesitated for a moment, but still said: "There are not many people who are really talented and learn, but there are still some people, and these people will inevitably think more when they see Gao Yu's article." ”

Fang Xiu waved his hand and said, "Think more and think more, I don't plan to rely on them to rule the world!" ”

"Lonely, as long as they don't make trouble for Lone."

When Xie Qian heard this, a trace of trance appeared in his eyes, and he said in his heart: If you don't rely on this group of people to govern the world, then who will govern the world?

You can't expect a new batch of readers to be more than ten years later, right?

Is it possible to let these old guys last for more than ten years?

Xie Qian thought so in his heart, and heard Fang Xiu say: "You just write an article to refute Gao Yu, how about the reader, don't worry about it, you know it in your heart." ”

The tone was very firm.

Xie Qian listened, didn't say more, and said, "The minister understands." ”

Fang Xiu waved his hand and said, "Go down and write." ”

"Yes, Your Highness!"

Xie Qian saluted and turned to leave.

After he left, Li Yinyue, who had been staying out of the matter, raised her eyes to look at Fang Xiu, and rarely took the initiative to speak:

"What are you going to do?"

Fang Xiu looked at Li Yingyue and said with some surprise: "Your Majesty actually took the initiative to talk to the ministers, it's really rare!" ”

“.”

When Li Yingyue heard this, she began to regret speaking.

"What the minister does depends on what Gao Yu and the scholars he pounces on, but there is one thing, the minister can be sure that the law is not responsible for the ministers, and it does not exist!"

Fang Xiu's tone was very flat, but there was a fierceness in his eyes.

Seeing this, Li Yingyue probably guessed his plan and fell silent.

After a long time, he said: "After all, the world must be governed by scholars." ”

The same thing, Xie Qian just said.

"But there is no need for this group of readers."

Fang Xiu also repeated what he had just said.

Li Yingyue listened to it and fell into thought.

After a while, she seemed to think of something, looked at Fang Xiu, and said in some surprise: "You want to train a scholar yourself?" ”

In front of Fang Xiu, she rarely showed her emotions, this was one of the few times.

It's just because Fang Xiu's ideas are a little too unrealistic.

The so-called self-cultivation of scholars means that the imperial court pays for a group of scholars.

There is no doubt that the amount of silver required to spend this is an astronomical amount.

After all, if Fang Xiu really planned to do this, he would definitely not choose those children of the family, but from the children of the poor people.

In this way, it is not only to give them books and find them husbands, but also to ensure their food, clothing, shelter and transportation.

It's okay to cultivate dozens, hundreds.

But if you want to cultivate thousands, tens of thousands, it is really difficult for the imperial court to afford!

Fang Xiu didn't answer, he just said with a serious face: "The sage speaks, the food is silent, and the sleep is silent." ”

“.”

Li Yingyue wanted to say that on weekdays, you don't care about saints the most, but today you are up one by one.

After thinking about it, if you really want to say this, it is tantamount to being provoked by Fang Xiu.

So, silence was chosen.

Seeing this, Fang Xiu didn't say more, picked up the chopsticks, and started eating.

Meanwhile.

Kofu.

Main Hall.

Gao Yu sat in the first seat with a serious face.

More than a dozen officials wearing four or five official robes sat on both sides, all with gloomy faces.

Before coming here, they had already heard the wind.

The regent plans to dismiss all of them, who did not go to greet His Majesty that day, in one fell swoop, and leave not a single one behind!

There is no doubt that they are completely unable to accept such a reality.

At this time, Gao Yu, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, who was known as a prestige in the court, invited them to come to discuss the matter.

Naturally, they couldn't wait to come over.

"Gao Gong, you and Xie Ge are always classmates, there is a lot of news, you should know better than the lower officials, does the regent really plan to dismiss all the people who did not greet His Majesty that day?"

An official asked with a look of hesitation on his face.

The voice fell.

The rest of the officials all looked at Gao Yu in unison, wanting to get an answer.

Gao Yu looked around and said lightly: "That's true." ”

The short four words made the hearts of the people present cold.

Instantly, everyone started talking enthusiastically.

"At least twenty or thirty people who did not greet His Majesty that day were all dismissed at once, leaving so many vacancies, how can the imperial court fill them?"

"The regent has only been in Beijing for a day, and he has done such a thing, he is not afraid of causing trouble?"

"What a regent! But a brute who doesn't take us seriously! After winning the Tiger Ben Army, he acted recklessly, really when I was a vassal state of his Qianguo! ”

(End of chapter)